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Anti-Israel Activists Stage Another 'Insurrection' at US Capitol Building, Police Arrest About 60 of Them
Red State ^ | 12/20/2023 | Jeff Charles

Posted on 12/20/2023 5:04:50 PM PST by SeekAndFind

Members of the anti-Israel lobby have staged yet another insurrection at the United States Capitol building. Pro-Hamas activists flooded the rotunda led by Linda Sarsour, a far-leftist agitator, to call for a ceasefire in the war in Gaza.

The incident was reminiscent of an earlier insurrection held by anti-Israel elements in October.

Police arrested “roughly 60” anti-Israel protesters inside the Capitol Rotunda Tuesday after a group led by controversial activist Linda Sarsour staged an illegal rally in the iconic venue.

“Not another nickel! Not another dime! No more money for Israel’s crimes!” chanted members of the group, holding “Stop Arming Israel” signs.

It is illegal to hold demonstrations inside the Capitol, though violators of the prohibition are inconsistently prosecuted by the DC US Attorney’s Office after being arrested.

“We were aware of a group’s potential plan to take a tour of the US Capitol Building and then start a protest,” Capitol Police said in a statement.

“It is against the law to demonstrate inside the Congressional Buildings, so we brought in additional officers to be prepared for the moment the group would break the law. The group was screened when they entered the building. Once they broke the law, roughly 60 people were immediately arrested for [violating] D.C. Code § 22–1307 — Crowding, Obstructing, or Incommoding.”

“NO MORE GENOCIDE!”

Over 100 #FreePalestine protesters just staged disruption inside Capitol Rotunda to #StopArmingIsrael with $14B more This is very beginning of it. Rotunda closed off after 5 minutes. Arrests have already started. pic.twitter.com/2s7WtTVxQ5— #StopCopCity (@ChuckModi1) December 19, 2023

How they got the signs into the Capitol Rotunda while on public tours is beyond me. I’ve been stopped carrying posters through the Rotunda multiple times and had to show staff ID just to bring charts to the House floor. pic.twitter.com/CFa8v6zAoJ— Ben Kamens (@BeeKamens) December 19, 2023

Combined with the 300 protesters who were arrested at the Capitol in mid-October, this means that about 360 insurrectionists should be facing years of jail time and solitary confinement. In fact, the number is likely higher since the FBI is going to track down the rest of those who were never arrested and take them into custody as well, right? Also, we can’t forget those who were never even at the Capitol in the first place, can we? They should also be arrested, especially if they sent text messages talking about the insurrection.

Alright, allow me to remove my tongue from my cheek for a moment.

Yes, the protest was not an actual insurrection, just like J6 was not an insurrection. But, the two events are being treated differently, as we recently saw with Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser's recent failure to call for protesters to be removed during the city's holiday celebrations. While hundreds of protesters were arrested, it will be a serious shock if any of them receive punishment on par with the individuals who committed the crime of walking peacefully around the building in 2021.



TOPICS: Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: antiisrael; antisemitism; capitol; clerics; dc; domesticenemies; hamas; imams; insurrection; iran; israel; jewhate; lindasarsour; propalestine; protest; sarsour; schoolshootings; sirajwahhaj; trainingcamps; wahhaj

1 posted on 12/20/2023 5:04:50 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

GET OUT!!!


2 posted on 12/20/2023 5:06:51 PM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND LEFTISM! AMERICA, COWBOY UP!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Low information individuals doing the work for Islam. Social and paychological jihad. Who is the leader and are they getting paid?


3 posted on 12/20/2023 5:09:07 PM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: SeekAndFind

Hamas wants women to have no rights.
Hamas wants to throw homosexuals from the rooftops of tall buildings.
Hamas wants slavery to be legal.
Hamas wants to live in a theocracy.

The Left loves Hamas.


4 posted on 12/20/2023 5:12:16 PM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: SeekAndFind

They’re rubbing it in. The CNN and MSNBC types thought people in the Capitol protesting was the end of the country——if they were Trump types.


5 posted on 12/20/2023 5:13:20 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: PGalt; SeekAndFind
led by Linda Sarsour, a far-leftist agitator

And I'll bet that she is on the government payroll (and probably the gov't dole as well).

Much like in Argentina, the left pays and protects their own.

6 posted on 12/20/2023 5:14:14 PM PST by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Are they being jailed without bail or access to a lawyer like the J6 defendants?

I thought not.


7 posted on 12/20/2023 5:15:22 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants ( "It is easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled."- Mark Twain)
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To: texas booster

Thanks very much.


8 posted on 12/20/2023 5:16:24 PM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Christianity states that all persons are equal. Gal 3:28
Christianity believes that homosexuality is a sin and sinners must repent, but to not persecute them.
Christianity was the reason slavery was eliminated.
Christianity wants Jesus to be the center of our personal and public lives but submission to him is absolutely voluntary.

Leftists hate Christianity.


9 posted on 12/20/2023 5:22:56 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants ( "It is easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled."- Mark Twain)
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To: SeekAndFind

May I suggest using your night stick officer?


10 posted on 12/20/2023 5:28:43 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Sarsour is known to U.S. counter terror experts as being a suspected fundraiser in one of the largest pro-Hamas money laundering operations in U.S. history.”


11 posted on 12/20/2023 5:58:31 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: texas booster

Linda Sarsour has stated that her mentor is Imam Siraj Wahhaj.
As I recall, that is the cleric involved with an alleged training camp in Alabama and also with a weird run down compound in New Mexico where the terrorists were trying to train kids to be school shooters... and which the FBI balked at investigating.
Local police had to check out the squalid place and get the kids out.


12 posted on 12/20/2023 6:08:29 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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Arrested... and then released I bet.
May not have even seen the inside of a police station


13 posted on 12/20/2023 6:21:51 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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To: SeekAndFind

Blood red paint courtesy of the Baby Roasters, Rapists, and Kidnappers.

14 posted on 12/20/2023 7:06:48 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Objective: Permanently break the will of the population to ever wage war again.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Well, Capitol Police, are you gonna throw them in jail with no charges and no bail allowed?

Well?


15 posted on 12/20/2023 10:21:36 PM PST by sauropod (The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.)
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